Yoshi-P Statement on Player Feedback

[Connor]

I can’t speak to the JP side of things, and it does sound like things are pretty drastic over there. Not that it’s any kind of excuse or justification, but I have to wonder whether someone pushed to do something so drastic (e.g mailing death threats to SE) doesn’t have some kind of serious mental health issues. I’d like to hope that taking action like that isn’t something that’s ‘common’ in any country

But, is it really such a surprise that the NA/EU forums are filled to the brim with shit? I don’t understand why they’d go through the trouble of creating an ‘official forum’ just to leave it completely unmoderated in any way lol. What did they actually expect? Is this a thing in JP forums? They can just post whatever the fuck they want without consequence lol?

Some of the things I see people posting now are so blatantly incendiary, ‘trolling’, aggressive or rude. Even in this post I’ve used wording that was entirely unnecessary. I’m curious at to whether anything will ever happen.

The developers don’t seem to consider feedback from the NA/EU forums, they don’t intend to moderate them in any way, there are no longer any community gm things, and most of the valuable feedback gets buried. At this point they should nuke the whole thing to the ground and drop the pretence that these forums exist for any kind of purpose.

Of course I want to defend the developers, but ultimately, how can I possibly defend someone if they’re hiding behind a curtain and refuse to let me see what’s on the other side. What they’re seeing on my side doesn’t match what I can see in any way whatsoever, but they refuse to acknowledge that we’re seeing things differently (‘you’re just seeing it wrong’).

Naturally, I’m not suggesting supporting abuse or harassment in any way. A post expressing disappointment or frustration can do so without being hurtful to others. But at the same time, with the developers deaf to the players, no moderation on the forums, and the game being designed in a lot of contradictory ways. I.E healers have innumerate ultra-powerful oGCDs, nothing to heal. Tanks have a ton of powerful defensive utility, and no damage for it to really matter. Jobs with very high dps output (e.g Reaper, Bard), provide at least the same amount of party support as jobs with minuscule dps output (e.g Dancer, Summoner). I mean, even silly things like how the game acts like it’s some huge deal to manage dps uptime whilst moving your character, even though every job in the game is shitting out instant-casts, ranged attacks, and mobility moves, like they’re going out of fashion lol. Hell only 1 out of three casters lacks a gap closer, and it technically already has one (you just have to close the gap with a party member instead lol).

None of it makes any sense anymore, and truthfully it’s begun to feel like they don’t want to bother trying to help us understand things